Here’s what’s coming up in Glasgow over the next couple of weeks, as well as a couple of things a bit further afield. As always, let us know about any events or actions coming up by emailing us at glasgowaf

1. Sma Shot Day: IWW stall & parade – Saturday 7th July

2. LGBT Unity Fundraiser – Saturday 7th July

3. Protest Trump’s Visit (Glasgow) – Friday 13th July

4. Scotland United Against Trump: National Demonstration – Saturday 14th July

Hello friends and fellow workers. May Day is this week and there’s no shortage of events in Glasgow celebrating International Workers Day – on the day itself and later on. We hope it stays sunny and people are reinvigorated to fight for a better world for all!

Many thanks to the folk behind May Day Week 2018 for the information they sent us and all the hard work they’ve put in organising events.

As always, please send us your events so that we can publicise them for you!

Hello everyone! Hope you’ve all survived the snowpocalypse and are desperate to get out of the house and do some stuff. International Women’s Day on Thursday is also International Women’s Strike, and there are events happening throughout the day.

Please send us your events so that we can publicise them for you!Here’s what we’ve found for you this coming week and one save-the-date for later this month:

1. ‘Against the National Project’ film screenings – Tuesday 6th March

2. Red and Black Song Club: International Women’s Day songs – Wednesday 7th March

For this event we are focussing in on food sharing projects and organisations. If you’re involved in sourcing surplus produce, community meals, feeding people, food distribution or any other kind of food sharing activity – this one is for you.

We’ll have speakers from different aspects of community food sharing and surplus food work, discussing their learning and experiences. We’ll have opportunites to discuss successes and challenges, talk through key issues and network collective action.

The UCU (lecturer and support workers union) is going out on strike on February 22nd/23rd/26th/27th February over the attack on their pensions. There is a Strike Committee meeting which students wanting to build the struggle are welcome to attend. It is at the UCU Office, Ground Floor of the Livingstone Tower at 12.00-13.00 on Thursday 1st February.

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3. Banner making for No More Trans Deaths Noise Demo

2/2/18

18.30-21.00

Glasgow Autonomous Space

We’re having a banner session for the No More Trans Deaths: Noise Demo down south! Come hang out with us and get crafty :~)

We’ll be joining various Action for Trans Health chapters, Manchester No Prisons at HMP Doncaster on the 11th Feb to protest the state-sanctioned murder of trans people.

Just a reminder to send any events you would like listed here to glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net. There are over 800 subscribers to this list, so if you’re producing radical events in Glasgow, use this resource! This week’s update follows.

Come and join us for the Unity* Arabic/English language exchange! It is a conversation class where people can learn Arabic and Arabic speakers can learn/improve their English and get to know each other in a supportive environment – an environment where English is not put on a pedestal and everyone is learning.

The class started as a response to the limited spaces for people to study ESOL at college. Many are on waiting lists for many many months, so we wanted to act together so people could practice their English in the mean time. Anyone of any level can attend. We also urgently need more English speakers!

An organisation called Arika has given us some money to provide travel expenses for those that could not attend the class otherwise, but this money is running out. Please help if you can: https://www.youcaring.com/people-who-couldn-t-attend-otherwise-601139 Come on down! 🙂

*The Unity Centre has been open almost 10 years and offers unconditional support and solidarity to asylum seekers and all other migrants http://unitycentreglasgow.org/

David McHarg is on trial for displaying a ‘Fuck off you Tory cunts’ poster on his window. Class War Scotland has called for a solidarity demonstration outside Glasgow Sheriff Court.

4. Anarchist Federation Film Showing: The Anti-Fascists
Thursday, 11/1/18
Glasgow Autonomous Space, 53 Kilbirnie Street
6-9pm
In 2014, left-wing activists and a group of neo-nazis clashed in the immigrant quarter of the Swedish town of Malmö, leaving several wounded and one anti-fascist – Showan Shattack – nearly dead. That same year, a violent gang of Fascists attacked an anti-Racist demonstration in Stockholm. A fight broke out between them and the few members of Anti-Fascist Action, which left one Fascist wounded, and one anti-fascist in jail. In this context, a documentary crew set out examining the history and activities of the Swedish anti-fascist movement, and its connections to the same one in Greece. Its successes and failures have lessons for all of us.

Join us for tea and biscuits at GAS (we’ll heat the upstairs room up ahead of time :-)) and we’ll watch the film and chat about it informally afterwards. Free, all welcome, donations accepted.

Loads of Celtic Connections events are super expensive, but did you know that there is a free concert every day, Danny Kyle’s Open Stage, at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall at 5pm?

The Danny Kyle Open Stage is a series of concerts held over the course of the festival that allows emerging musical talent to take part in Celtic Connections. From all the performers on the Open Stage, six will be chosen to display their talents in a showcase concert on the final night, and receive the opportunity to perform in support slots at next year’s festival.

Danny Kyle was a passionate supporter of Scottish traditional music, and campaigned tirelessly for its revival in Scotland. His close friend Liz Clark comperes the concerts in his memory, and the concerts have a reputation for drawing attention to acts that are now household names, including Karine Polwart and Rura.